Today we had the commander of the reactor system on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) come and lecture us about joining the Surface Warfare Officer Nuke (SWO-N) community. It was pretty neat to hear about all of the propulsion stuff and the places he had been in his 20 years of Naval service: 86 countries and all 50 states.
After that one of our staff members who is also a reserve Commander drove me and a few other Mids over to Submarine Base New London to get our military IDs. She also showed us around base and let us go to the exchange and stuff. We also got to see the USS Virginia, the flagship of the Virginia class fast-attack submarines. On the way to the base we got to drive by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, which was very nice. The best part was driving by the academy and seeing the USCGC Eagle, the three-masted sail ship captured from the Nazis after WWII and now used by the Coast Guard to train their officer candidates. It's a beautiful ship to see.
Anyways, I got a random picture at the exchange and then a nice picture of sunset in the New Haven harbor just a short distance from campus: